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It is also recommended that in addition to permanently established 

 schools there be or<;anized in localities not yet provided with them, 

 traveling schools of dairying similar to those which are in operation 

 in Ireland and Helginm. It is desirable that these travelin<; dairy 

 schools should nnika use of local agricultural gatherings of dili'erent 

 kinds in order to advertise themselves to the greatest extent. 



Secotid I iiternational Congress^ Liege, 1905. — Conformable to the 

 opinions expressed in previons congresses, and notably in that of 

 Lausanne, the international congress at Liege expressed the opin- 

 ion that the teaching of elementary agriculture should take an im- 

 portant place in the progrannne of the rural primary schools; that 

 the best form to give to this instruction consists of lessons in subjects 

 ■which have close relation to the natural sciences in their application 

 to agriculture. 



The congress also desired to see a development in professional 

 agricultural teaching, and one of the forms it recommended is the 

 movable school manned by specialists and with a programme dic- 

 tated by the circumstances of location and the soil. 



Courses of study for farmers' wives should be multiplied, and 

 should include, besides instruction now given, lessons by competent 

 j)ersons in domestic economy and maternal pedagogy. 



The organization of conrses of agricultural teaching for soldiers 

 by the military authorities is favored. 



Agricultural libraries can most admirably second the instruction 

 ordinarily given, and the public authorities could not too much 

 encourage these efforts in the beginning by the formation of semi- 

 circulating libraries («) in the agricultural societies, (6) in agri- 

 cultural school districts. 



The establishment in each country of a school teaching the theory 

 and practice of aviculture is reconnnended. 



The improvement of the agricultural journal by every possible 

 means is virged. 



Correspondence, conference, reading, and similar courses should 

 receive the support and encouragement of public authorities, who 

 should also encourage the dissemination of short treatises and leaf- 

 lets on agricultural topics through the medium of agricultural soci- 

 eties and jH'imary schools. The conference courses should include 

 lessons in the experimental field, and the farmer should familiarize 

 himself with the organization and work of the professional agricul- 

 tural schools. 



Stereopticon views well presented form an easy means of increasing 

 the interest of meetings and lessons for all degrees of agricultural 

 instruction, therefore it is desirable (1) to encourage in all sections 

 the production of good negatives representing agricultural questions; 

 (2) to direct the attention to the absolute necessity of preparing the 



